It represented the first large group of Canadian soldiers to serve overseas. English Canadian men eagerly to sign up. John McCrae had just graduated from medical school but was preoccupied with ...

Ian Hicks, from the history centre, explained that the wooden huts for the Canadian soldiers came about after a very wet winter in Wiltshire, "so hundreds were created". "They gave each hut a ...

Around 650,000 Canadian soldiers fought in WW1. In the east, the Russian Army was able to mobilise more quickly than the Germans had anticipated and began advancing towards Germany’s borders.

The battery — a fortification for heavy guns — was built in 1914 to protect Canadian troops as part of a coastal defence system for the global war that erupted in Europe. In 2009 and 2012 ...